Cooling vessel



p UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE J. REYNOLDS, OF CORNING, IOWA.

COOLING VESSEL.

" SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,239, dated April 26, 1898.

Application filed July 2 9, 1 8 9 7.

To all whom it may concern.- I

Be it known that I, HORACE J. REYNOLDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Corning, in the county of Adams and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooling Vessels; and I do declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to. the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form apart of this specifica tion.

My invention relates to keeping meats, butter, milk, and other provisions at a sumciently low temperature to keep them cool without the use of ice orany other refrigerant than Water or the earth.

My invention consists in using an oblong cylindrical vessel of heat-conductin g material weighted at the lower end to cause it to be submerged perpendicularly and made watertight at the cover as well as elsewhere, which is made to slide on two galvanized-iron rods or pipes passing through metallic holders fastened on the side of same, on the inside of which vessel is an oblong cylindrical vessel open on one side and provided with shelves upon which to place the meats, butter, milk, &c. 1

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front elevation showing my invention suspended in the water of a well or cistern from a supposed windlass. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section of my invention, while Fig. 3 represents a front view of the inner cylinder, which is open in front or on the side and provided with shelves. The same is made smaller than No. 1, so that it can be removed.

In the cylinder A,'which ismade oblong in form, I use at the top a hinged cover a, with packing a on the under side thereof, and

the Weight at the bottom 00, the latter causing Serial No. 646,425. (No model.)

it to sink, the rods a extending from the bottom of the well or cistern to the top of the same, which are to hold the cylinder A in place and cause it to-remain in a perpendicw lar position, passing through metallic pieces a attached to cylinder A. The cover is preferably held by a spring-latch, so as to keep the packing tight on the upper edge of the cylinder, but may be retained in place by any suitable device without departing from the principle of my invention.

a represents removable shelves resting on horizontalprojecti'ons from inside of cylinder 13 to hold the differentarticles, which may be separated from'each other.

a represents a rope which may be detachably connected with the top of cover of cylinder A and coiled about a Windlass, so as to permit the said cylinders to be conveniently raised, lowered, taken off the rope or put on it. It may, however, be raised, lowered, and supported in other ways. Should the Weight a not be sufficiently heavy to sink cylinder A and its contents, the said cylinder A may be partially filled with sand, gravel, or other heavy substance suflicient to sink the same.

Having thus described all that is necessary 'to a full understanding of myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

An oblong cylinder of good heat-conducting material, made water-tight, weighted at the lower end and having a hinged or removable cover at the upper end attached to rods to keep the same perpendicular, and containing a second cylinder open at the side with shelves, the whole adapted to be used in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HORACE J. REYNOLDS.

Witnesses:

FRANG I. BIXBY, Jim. W. BIXBY. 

